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Current: Product @ Whatnot Past: Product for GenAI/AR/Camera @Snap, CEO/Founder at Audius, Whale, Polly, The Artist Union, YC S17. Sri Lankan Pop Artist/DJ

San Francisco,CA/Sri Lanka
Joined January 2009
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Apple blocked my fun AI palm reading app because the category was considered “spam.” Which is funny because I built it for the least spammy reason possible: nostalgia. Growing up in Sri Lanka, palm reading was always part of the background magic of life. An elder, astrologer, or family friend would take your hand, study the lines, and turn them into a story about who you were and where life might take you. Then I saw what new vision models could do and went down a rabbit hole. So I built Chirogram, a private TestFlight experiment to see if AI can make that old ritual feel personal, beautiful, and new again. I’m only keeping it open for 7 days. Reply here if you want to try it, or sign up at chirogram.app. iOS only.
🤖 Made with AI
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Everything that scales is a temporary victory over entropy. The universe eventually collects its debt.
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Great things take time and perseverance .
SIMON HARMER IN TEARS 🥹❤️ - POTS in India. - POTM in series decider vs Australia. He is 37, giving everything for his country, hopefully he plays couple of years and make South Africa more proud.
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yes 100% sure this is going to be played at my house from morning to evening on Christmas day.
Now we know what they will be watching on Christmas Day in Sri Lanka.
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huge congrats to this unstoppable team that just keeps executing @immad @mercury
You didn’t settle for what existed. Neither will we. What you expect from banking is about to change.
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Can’t wait for all the things great visual product leaders like yourself will come up with!!
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Congrats to this awesome team on launch
Spent years watching models ace a single image and completely whiff on anything that moves or changes angle. Today we’re fixing that. Try Glimpse now, our first visual thinking model with competitive frontier performance compared to Astra on key public visual reasoning benchmarks.
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Spent years watching models ace a single image and completely whiff on anything that moves or changes angle. Today we’re fixing that. Try Glimpse now, our first visual thinking model with competitive frontier performance compared to Astra on key public visual reasoning benchmarks.
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Your bank account being an ai connected account with actions available to do via plain text and analysis run via ai is going to be a game changer. Congrats @immad and team @mercury
1/ Starting today you can take actions on your @Mercury business and personal accounts right from your agent (ChatGPT/Claude/etc) via the MCP. Our MCP already let you ask questions about your accounts.* Now it can move money too (with your approval).
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In typical fashion @OfficialSLC falls apart after 1 good game and just gets completely rolled. Extremely disappointing end to the series.
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Wellalage plays with a heart of a lion and is a clear leader and match winner. @OfficialSLC should never leave him out to play the other players who have been tried over and over. Today's combination is the right team for the 2027 world cup.
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Congrats to the @unreallabsai team on launching this new harness. Impressive results
Introducing Unreal Agent: An open-source harness with state-of-the-art cost efficiency 39% cheaper than Codex+Astra on Terminal-Bench 4.0 while maintaining performance
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Love the snap fam getting out there! @petersellis enjoyed this a lot.
"I design teams like terrorist organizations." 90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from @petersellis We discuss: 🔸 What it's really like to manage @nikitabier 🔸 Why growth almost always comes from the core 🔸 Why great taste is knowing when to stop 🔸 Why the median PM is so bad 🔸 Designing teams like terrorist organizations Listen now 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=97LRJUUP…
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@Ranidu appreciation post for the bangers he dropped in mid 2000s
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San Francisco’s come back is real but we still have a serious problem. The unfortunately truth is that thousands of Fentanyl addicts live here. Most are not born and raised in SF but they have come to use drugs and are housed in our shelters and SROs. They take a drug that is 30-50x more addictive than heroin and as a result are not interested in drug treatment which is offered to them regularly. As long as these people live here and are not in treatment, the conditions on the street will be impacted by their presence. As long as they are here and using, dealers will figure out how to sell them drugs. I dont judge these addicts, they aren’t violent and I can’t imagine trying to combat a fentanyl addiction. But that doesn’t change the fact that their presence creates negative externalities that impact our city everyday. Too many people are talking about the symptoms and not the problem.
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Wow team @mercury just keeps shipping! Congrats @immad
1/ Today, we're launching @Mercury Books. AI-powered accounting software, for your bookkeeper or you, that categorizes and reconciles your transactions the moment they happen.
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I made a game kyotobounce.com. You play as a robot who likes to bounce balls around inside the atrium of @ksb_official901.
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Shanah Tovah to all my friends who celebrate.
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To all my Jewish friends, happy Rosh Hashanah 🍎🍯 May this be a year of peace and growth 🙏
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